Word: teutonicisms
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Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later...
A millionaire once offered the University a large sum of money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the...
In the second world war, the Museum fared a bit better. As someone said, "the Germanic Museum was the first bit of University territory to be occupied by the United States Army and the last to be evacuated." It served first as a school for army chaplains, and later as...
This Teutonic definition totally missed the point. Opening the front door is a purely incidental duty for La Pipelette. She has chores which include leasing apartments, delivering mail, sweeping the halls, and collecting both garbage and rents. She is the voice of conscience and the threat of retribution. She sees...
What may blow Bavaria's political circus to kingdom come is a social revolution, of which the first rumblings can already be heard. Bavaria's prewar population of some 7,000,000 has now hit the 9,000,000 mark. The new millions, reversing the Teutonic movement that...